Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-s2hrs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T12:41:23.878Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Democracy and the Union: Dressing up Cinderella

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2007

WTE  and
MC
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

‘The functioning of the Union shall be founded on representative democracy.’ This the new Union Treaty echoes from the Constitutional Treaty. ‘Citizens are directly represented at Union level in the European Parliament.’ It means that the Union pretends to be a democracy and challenges the thesis, held by some, that democracy cannot be applied to an international organization. The mere ambition does not, however, answer the Union's shortcomings in terms of democracy.

Keywords

Democratic DeficitEuropean UnionLegitimacyDirect DemocracyReform Treaty
Type
Editorial
Information
European Constitutional Law Review , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , October 2007 , pp. 353 - 356
Copyright
Copyright © Asser Press 2007